Americas Insistent Violence: a Call to Action from Merge Education
Summary
With a Preventive Intervention Merge Education sees the insistent violence in America as a call to action to address the needs of all youth, especially those who are most difficult to reach and often overlooked.This solution utilizes Merge Director Bill Rossi’s unique educational approach that incorporates strengths-based mentoring and long-term, high quality, progressive fine arts training.This approach has an orientation of inclusivity, a creative sharing and celebration of uniqueness and our commonality – of developing distinctive voices and building community.) Children Hurt (v.) ChildrenChildren and youth with emotional challenges become different from their peers, and while they may join small fringe groups of friends they are often shunned or bullied.They have greatly influenced contemporary American music.Exploration of this tradition and history by learning the music it created leads into the humanities, and provides fertile ground for educating youth.